Intellectual History of Economic Normativities

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Profiting from Words....Pages 1-23
The Greed of Gold: Early Modern Conceptions of Money, Nature and Morals....Pages 25-39
Trade is a Kind of Warfare: Mercantilism and Corporations in the Thought of Josiah Child....Pages 41-55
The Wedel-Jarlsberg-Controversy: Defending the Existing Order against the Reform-Movement in Late Eighteenth-Century Denmark....Pages 57-71
The Emergence of the Concept “Political Economy”....Pages 73-89
Equilibrium, Natural Order and the Origins of Normative-Deductive Economics....Pages 91-106
Representation and Taxation: Fiscality, Human Rights and the French Revolution....Pages 107-121
Political Economy at Work: Explaining the Results of Machinery in 1830s Britain....Pages 123-137
The Crisis Is the Social Organism’s Mastering of Itself: A Conceptual and Economic History of the Problem of Crisis....Pages 139-153
When Finance Became Productive, Scientific and Liberating: A Moral History of Financial Speculation....Pages 155-168
The Economics of Starvation: Laissez-Faire Ideology and Famine in Colonial India....Pages 169-184
The Economic Normativity of British Fiscal Administration in Egypt and Nigeria, 1882–1914....Pages 185-199
Talking the Creative Economy into Being....Pages 201-215
Retweet This: Participation, Collective Production, and New Paradigms of Cultural Production....Pages 217-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-248